On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:22:47PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > But there's a bigger problem: you're advocating that the GPL was designed > to allow a developer to impose a restriction on subsequent users which > [a] is not expressed explicitly in the GPL, and [b] was not imposed by > the original developer. This conflicts with the expressed design intent > of the GPL (see the preamble). This also conflicts with how the GPL > deals with another case of an optional restriction (see section 8).
If you dual-license code under the MPL and GPL, anyone may modify and distribute the modification as GPL-only. How is that different from your situation? Using the phrase "or any later version" is merely dual-licensing (rather, multi-licensing) code under the GPLv2, GPLv3, etc. dave...
